堪萨斯城国际Airport failed to properly track participation of minority- and women-owned businesses on its $1.5 billion project to build a new terminal, according to an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The agency claims In a Feb. 9 letter that the city also did not report a civil rights and retaliation complaint brought by a woman-owned contractor whose winning bid to work on the project was later rescinded.

The FAA has given Kansas City 30 days to comply with minority business participation requirements or provide a timeline for when corrective actions will be completed.

“We expect the city to take immediate steps to correct the identified deficiencies, starting with proposed corrective actions and timelines for each finding,” the FAA said.

这封信规定了各种纠正措施，如培训所有现有的直接承包商，就标题VI义务和流程，确保所有直接承包商培训其承包商和供应商受到培训人员，以及培训标题VI义务和流程，以及培训堪萨斯市议会成员的职责义务。

Chris Hernandez, director of communications for the city, said it is already working to address the issues the FAA identified.

建设的terminalbegan in 2019 and is slated for completion in March 2023. Clark Construction, based in Bethesda, Md., designed and is constructing the new terminal. Kansas City-based Edgemoor is developing the new 39-gate terminal, a 6,300-space parking garage, a new dual roadway and other related improvements.

Geoff Stricker, senior managing director with Edgemoor, contends that the company is exceeding participation goals for women and minorities, citing contracts worth $319.8 million, or 21%, of the project’s budget that have been awarded to minority- or women-owned firms as of January.

Lisa Garney, owner of Kansas City-based concrete supplier G2 Construction, disagrees with Edgemoor's assessment. Her company, in partnership with Denver-based ESCO Construction, had been awarded an $80-million contract for concrete work at the terminal, only to have it later withdrawn. Garney claims that the contract was rescinded after the Heavy Constructors Association of Greater Kansas City complained that the contract wasn't going to a local contractor.

该合同后来颁发给墨西哥州德克斯公司的圣约瑟夫，艾德克公司总裁伊德克尔公司Paul Ideker也是HCA总统。

Garney estimates her firm spent several hundred thousand dollars on equipment and other costs to earn the contract.

“我把内心和灵魂置于确保这份合同，我投入了大量的总和，以获得[它]在公平地确保奖项后被拉走了，”她说。“该奖项将是将少数民族和妇女列入该项目的灯塔。相反，这个城市袭击了我作为一个女性拥有的企业，以使合同成为一个政治的最爱。“

Asked about her next steps following the FAA's letter, Garney told ENR “We are concentrating on the city's response to the investigation and weighing our options.”

IDEKER和HCA没有响应ENR的评论请求。新利luck